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In December 2013, AsiaSat commissioned AsiaSat 9—to be built by Space Systems/Loral[1]—originally intending it to be launched in early 2017 in order to replace AsiaSat4 at 122 degrees east.

In early 2015, AsiaSat reported a nine percent revenue drop, and a 27 percent drop in contracts, pointing to a regional oversupply of satellite communication services in the Asian regions it serves.[1] At that time, AsiaSat had four commsats in operation and had recently launched two more—AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat8—which had added 22 percent additional bandwidth capacity into the shrinking market. Although revenues were down just nine percent—to HK$1365 billion—2014 profits declined by 25 percent over 2013, to HK$559 million.[1]